Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similies (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).


Letter (20 March 1953); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then...

Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then...

Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then...

Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then...